Meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherBell Analytics said the entire Florida peninsula will be raked by Irma's right front quadrant - the part of a hurricane that usually brings the strongest winds, storm surge, rain and tornadoes. It's like we've been transported to the pre-digital, pre-cellphone era. Massive cleanup: Trees are down and streets are flooded, even though the storm surge wasn't as b... [Full Article...]

We're at 35-plus. That doesn't work. "I think they're very aggressive on this - they want it done", he acknowledged . Ryan told reporters it was the "beginning of the process" to give "middle class families a much-deserved break". Beltway is fed up with partisan politics. In the past, Trump has expressed disappointment with the failure of congressional Republicans to repeal or fix the nat... [Full Article...]

She posted several photos with the caption: "Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?" Experts responded to Desai, hypothesizing that the animal was some sort of eel, possibly a fangtooth snake-eel, according to the Daily Mail . I thought it could be something from the deep sea that might have washed on to shore", she told the BBC . The fangtooth snake-eel, also known as a "tusky" e... [Full Article...]

Wednesday to provide more details about the arrest and the investigation. She did not show up for the first day of classes at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia after spending two weeks preparing her classroom. As of 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Duke Energy reports 37,000 outages in SC. "She is still alive somewhere", Mark Wallen said Monday . Wallen was four months pregnant, and her family... [Full Article...]

Shadjareh believes that the Rohingya Muslims are facing "genocide and ethnic cleansing" at the hands of Myanmar's government, military and the country's majority Buddhists. Boatloads of exhausted Rohingya continued to arrive in the Cox's Bazar region of neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday. In Washington, the U.S. State Department on Thursday voiced its concern "following serious allegations of h... [Full Article...]

President Trump has tweeted many times on the increasing pressures between North Korea and the USA, saying that "North Korea has conducted a major nuclear test ". The new sanctions come just months after others were also approved. This time officials said they wanted to circulate their own draft. He later said the US military was "locked and loaded", as if ready to attack the nuclear armed na... [Full Article...]

I don't want to get into a big debate about how great the so-called " Dreamers " are, the young people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program who were brought to the U.S. The last time I checked, 15 states had announced the filing of lawsuits to block that action, and it is being condemned by media organizations, certain politicians and all the other usual suspects. [Full Article...]

A Labour Government will end the public sector pay cap and give all workers the pay rise they deserve and so desperately need. Delegates also disclosed that three public sector unions were planning to canvass members over coordinated strike action. [Full Article...]

The purchase came in spite of protest by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and alliance member states, which cited the benefit of instead having a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation interoperable missile defense system. " Turkey continues to pursue anti-missile systems from NATO Allies, including the US, for its broader, long-term missile defense needs". As the dispute unfolded, the U.S. [Full Article...]

The firing from across the border, which started around 3 pm was going on till reports last came in, sources said, adding that BSF troops retaliated and there had been no loss of life or property in Pargwal sector near Akhnoor in Jammu district. [Full Article...]

Tito Catota, Parmenio Perez and Michael Papagni are charged with forcibly assaulting, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with two men identified in court documents as "Victim One" and "Victim Two" while the victims were on duty as CBP officers. [Full Article...]

In Bolton Hill neighborhood of #Baltimore this morning - #RacistAnthem on Francis Scott Key monument. This vandalism is reported three weeks after the Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore City was vandalized , with the suspected vandal posting a video on You Tube. [Full Article...]

A Turkish newspaper is quoting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying that both Ankara and Moscow are committed to Turkey's purchase of S-400 missile defense systems from Russian Federation. The S-400 is Russia's most advanced long-range anti-aircraft missile system and can carry three types of missiles capable of destroying targets including ballistic and cruise missiles. [Full Article...]

The plea which also sought cancellation of licences and forfeiture of state grants of erring schools will be heard by the court along with the petition filed yesterday by the father of boy. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar called up the boy's father on Monday and also got Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar to have a word with him. Teachers and staff from the school were questioned at the school and the principal... [Full Article...]

Comey's announcement upended Clinton's campaign at a crucial time , and prompted speculation that the former secretary of state might cut ties with her longtime right-hand woman after the episode. Clinton believes Comey was sacked for the wrong reason but should have been disciplined in some way for the email investigation, she said. "That's what this investigation is to determine", Clinton sai... [Full Article...]

A seafaring assault vehicle caught fire during a scheduled battalion training event on a beach at the base, Paul Gainey, spokesman for the Marine 1st Division said. Earlier this month, U.S. Marine Corps officials announced that another Marine had died during training at the base north of San Diego County. He was pronounced dead at the scene. [Full Article...]

It has killed at least 22 people and has officials scrambling to bring aid on Sunday. "This is a handsome town but now it is a disaster", a local resident of the coastal town of Villa Clara told Reuters . British troops and police were deployed over the weekend to the region to restore law and order after reports of looting, he said. Speaking to the Press Association on a Virgin Atlantic fl... [Full Article...]

Small islands like St. Martin/St. Maarten, and the twin-island state of Barbuda and Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands have all suffered extensive damage. So far there have been no reports of deaths in Cuba. Seawater penetrated as much as a half-kilometer (one-third of a mile) inland in some places. [Full Article...]

When police arrived on the scene, Lockner allegedly said she didn't know she was pregnant and was surprised the baby was born, according to prosecutors. Though doctors gave the baby a grim prognosis, he stayed alive after being taken off life support and is expected to survive, according to The Daily Journal . [Full Article...]

In documents obtained by KDVR , Deanna Salas-Solano alleges that during a September 2015 visit to a Denver Starbucks she was handed a cup of hot tea without a hot tea sleeve and an unsecured lid. 'She immediately experienced intense pain including on her stomach, legs and lap. It also says that Alexander was taken straight to an emergency veterinary practice, but "ultimately succumbed to the in... [Full Article...]